Sexual reproduction between partners of the same mating type in Cryptococcus neoformans

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7036, 2005, Pages 1017-1021

  Lin, Xiaorong ^a   Hull, Christina M ^a,b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CLONING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMMUNOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; PATHOGEN; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

FUNGI;

FUNGUS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MEIOSIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CYTOLOGY; DIPLOIDY; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

PHEROMONE;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; PHEROMONES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEX; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 17844369955     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03448     Document Type: Article

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